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future. To have an ambition and a goal at this
stage is amazing. I can’t ask for anything else,
I’m so grateful. What I can take away is that
I’ve been given the chance to do what I love.
I’ve got my foot in the door and I’m not going
to back down on doing what I love.
If Arya was living in today’s world, what
would she be like?
I’m going to put it in ‘mean girl’ terms.
So, you know there’s always that girl who
looks perfect and has perfect hair, and
make-up stays on all day and wears a perfect
handbag and has her nails done and they
would never chip? Arya would not be that
girl. She’d be the polar opposite and love it.
She would be the ruler of the underdogs.
She wouldn’t be popular and people would
hate her but she wouldn’t care. That’s what
I like about her, she wouldn’t care.
Do you think Arya will ultimately get her
revenge?
Hell yeah! She’s realising
very quickly that just because
you’re a good person doesn’t
mean you’re going to survive.
She’s proud of the actions that
she takes.
“I am soooo excited to be on the show, I can hardly
contain myself,” says Kiwi star Keisha Castle-Hughes
about joining the cast of Game of Thrones, the fifth
season of which will begin screening on Foxtel from
April 13.
She plays Obara Sand, who is the oldest of the
bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell (aka the Red
Viper), one of the major new characters introduced
in Season Four. In George R.R. Martin’s books,
Obara is the fiercest and most warrior-like of the
siblings known as the Sand Snakes, a number of
whom will be introduced in the fifth season.
As usual, HBO is keeping tight-lipped as to
which storylines will emerge in the new season,
although the land of Dorne and its ruling family,
House Martell, are expected to feature prominently
this year.
However, from now it’s going to be harder than
ever to predict which direction the show will take,
as the new series will draw on the last two books
to be published, A Feast for Crows and A Dance
with Dragons. Unlike previous volumes, the action
in these two books occur concurrently in the same
time frame, but focus mainly on two different sets
of characters. Further complicating matters is that a
number of storylines are rapidly coming to their end;
for example, HBO has already confirmed that Bran
Stark will not be appearing in the fifth season as his
current published story arc from the books is now
largely complete.
A publication date has not yet been announced
for the sixth volume in the series, The Winds of
Winter. It is unlikely to be delivered this year, and
some believe it may not turn up until 2017. However,
Martin has stated he won’t be writing any Season
Five episodes so as to focus on completing the
novel. And with the epic Song of Ice and Fire saga
not due to be wrapped up until the seventh volume
(provisionally titled A Dream of Spring), sooner or
later the TV series may have to go it alone.
A SNAKE IN THE SAND
New Zealand star joins Game Of Thrones